A Note from our Pastor

Thank you so much for visiting our website today! Through visit today, you have given me the opportunity to personally invite you to visit with us.

Temple Baptist Church is located in Flower Mound, Texas. I want you to know that you will always be welcome and wanted in our services. The Temple choir and music program is truly outstanding. The sermons you will hear will be from the inspired Word of God.

You will discover that we provide many opportunities to serve the Lord. We are a diverse church family and have a variety of ministries—there is a place for everyone here! Please take time to look through our site to find out more about the activities that go on every week.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the core of who we are as a church family. If you are seeking the Lord, we will be more than glad to point you to Him as He has revealed Himself in the Scriptures. If you already know the Lord as Savior, it is our desire that you will come to know Him in an even greater way through our services.

Please feel free to contact the church office if you have any questions. May the Lord bless you as you seek to serve Him!

Sincerely,

Pastor Wallace

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Pastor Wallace is the Senior Pastor of Temple Baptist Church. He and his wife, Paula, planted the church and have served faithfully for over 40 years. They are parents to two wonderful children and have seven grandchildren.

Dustin GainesAssociate Pastordgaines@templebc.org

Dustin oversees the marriage ministry and community group ministry at Temple. Dustin is also an attorney, and oversees the legal side of the church. He and his wife Shannon have been married for 16 years and have one daughter.

Scott CookYouth Pastorscook@templebc.org

Scott and his wife, Jennifer, serve in the youth ministry. They came to Temple in the summer of 2014. Scott and Jennifer currently have two children, Cameron and Samantha.

Mark CoxChildren's Pastormcox@templebc.org

Mark Cox came to Temple Baptist in June of 2017 and serves as our Children's Pastor. Mark and his wife, Michelle, are also teachers in our Christian school, Temple Christian Academy.

Rick BeetsMusic Directorrbeets@templebc.org

Rick has served as choir and orchestra director for over 15 years. His wife, Mary, serves as school nurse for TCA. Rick and Mary have 5 children and 7 grandchildren.

Glada DeVoreMissions and Outreach Coordinatormissglada@templebc.org

Miss Glada has served at Temple Baptist for over 30 years. She is involved in our missions, outreach, ladies', and children's ministries.

Dave BirkeyBuilding Managerdbirkey@templebc.org

Dave and his wife, Dawn, have served at Temple Baptist for over 20 years. Along with being building manager, Dave serves as the director of Heritage Builders—Temple's senior adult ministry . They have two children and three grandchildren.

Todd HickmanTCA Principalthickman@templechristian.com

Todd Hickman is the Principal for Temple Christian Academy (TCA). Todd and his wife, Denise, came in the summer of 2017. Denise works on the team at TCA as school receptionist. They have three children—Preston, Pierson, and Parker.

Tonia HarradineTCLC Directortharradine@templebc.org

Tonia serves as the Director of Temple Christian Learning Center (TCLC). Tonia has served as the TCLC director for 11 years. Tonia and her husband, Russell, have three children-Brandon, Miranda, and Ashley.

Marianne StehleChurch Office Admin. Assistantmstehle@templebc.org

Marianne serves as the office manager and assistant to Pastor Wallace. Marianne and her husband, Courtney, have four children—Zander, Calin, Mckenzie, and Morgan.

Carin GibbsBusiness Managercgibbs@templebc.org

Carin has been working at Temple for the last 6 years as the business manager. She has 4 grown children—Heather, Heidi, Dave, and Danielle.

Shannon GainesGraphic Designersgaines0505@gmail.com

Shannon has been a graphic designer working with churches for the last 15 years. She and her husband, Dustin, have one daughter.

There is one and only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. The eternal God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.

Man was created by the special act of God, in His own image, and is the crowning work of His creation. In the beginning man was innocent of sin and was endowed by his Creator with freedom of choice. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Through the temptation of Satan man transgressed the command of God, and fell from his original innocence; whereby his posterity inherit a nature and an environment inclined toward sin, and as soon as they are capable of moral action become transgressors and are under condemnation. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfil the creative purpose of God. The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore every man possesses dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love. (Gen. 1:26-30; 2:5, 7, 18-22; 3; 9:6; Psalms 1; 8:3-6; 32:1-5; 51:5; Isa. 6:5; Jer. 17:5; Matt. 16:26; Acts 17:26-31; Rom. 1:19-32; 3:10-18, 23; 5:6, 12, 19; 6:6; 7:14-25; 8:14-18, 29; 1 Cor. 1:21-31; 15:19, 21-22; Eph. 2:1-22; Col. 1:21-22; 3:9-11)

Salvation

Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, sanctification, and glorification.

Regeneration, or the new birth, is a work of God’s grace whereby believers become new creatures in Christ Jesus. It is a change of heart wrought by the Holy Spirit through conviction of sin, to which the sinner responds in repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Repentance and faith are inseparable experiences of grace.

Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer’s faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, the believer’s death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus. It is a testimony to his faith in the final resurrection of the dead.

God alone is Lord of the conscience, and He has left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are contrary to His Word or not contained in it. Church and state should be separate. The state owes to every church protection and full freedom in the pursuit of its spiritual ends. In providing for such freedom no ecclesiastical group or denomination should be favored by the state more than others. Civil government being ordained of God, it is the duty of Christians to render loyal obedience thereto in all things not contrary to the revealed will of God. The church should not resort to the civil power to carry on its work. The gospel of Christ contemplates spiritual means alone for the pursuit of its ends. The state has no right to impose penalties for religious opinions of any kind. The state has no right to impose taxes for the support of any form of religion. A free church in a free state is the Christian ideal, and this implies the right of free and unhindered access to God on the part of all men, and the right to form and propagate opinions in the sphere of religion without interference by the civil power. (Gen. 1:27; 2:7; Matt. 6:6-7, 24; 16:26; 22:21; John 8:36; Acts 4:19-20; Rom. 6:1-2; 13:1-7; Gal. 5:1, 13; Phil. 3:20; 1 Tim. 2:1-2; James 4:12; 1 Peter 2:12-17; 3:11-17; 4:12-19)

Our History

In His great wisdom, GOD ordained that Temple Baptist Church would begin in the fall of 1977.

In the beginning of that fateful year, Richard and Paula Wallace moved from Kentucky to the Dallas area expecting to assume the pastorate of a mission church. When they arrived, they found the job for which they came was no longer available. The young preacher accepted a position as a youth pastor in Richardson but knew that wasn’t all the Lord had in store for him in Texas. So, he prayed, and the Lord said, “Start a church.” He was searching for a location to start the church when a man in McKinney told him about Lewisville. He said Lewisville was about to start growing, and that he should look there.

After weeks of searching through Lewisville, Pastor Wallace finally located a store front in the Lakeland Plaza shopping center. He began passing out fliers to advertise his new church. The first Sunday service saw 11 people in attendance with a $12 offering. Spectacular, no; but it was a start. From that point, the church saw steady growth. Soon they expanded into additional store front space. Before long, they outgrew the storefront, and it was time to look for their own property. The land was located, and they purchased a few acres on Bellaire Blvd.

The first building erected on the new property was small, but God worked in big ways there. Shortly after moving to Bellaire Blvd, Temple Christian Academy was born and shared the property with the church. As the church continued to grow, they added some additional small buildings. Later, the Lord miraculously provided funds to build a gymnasium. Not only was the gymnasium used for athletics; but also for worship services as well.

The gym was functional as an auditorium but the church continued to grow and needed more space. Again, the Lord had a plan. He opened the door to purchase a pre-existing church property on Milton Street in Lewisville. There, the church would find more space, and the school would continue to operate on Bellaire Blvd.

The Milton Street property provided more Sunday School space and a single purpose worship center. The church prospered there for a while but was practically invisible to the public due to the location.

Pastor Wallace and the church prayed about this issue and soon the Lord led him to Main Street in Old Town Lewisville. There, in buildings that had once housed First Baptist Church, the church found an open, roomy worship facility that served the church family well for several years. But as the neighborhood began to change, access to classroom buildings became dangerous. It was time to move again.

Pastor Wallace formed a Building Committee to search for new property. After significant effort, the Lord led them to Northshore Blvd in Flower Mound where acreage was available. An architect was hired, master plans were designed to last the church needs far into the future, and construction began. After almost three years of searching, planning, and construction, Temple Baptist Church opened its doors in Flower Mound.

Now, the church is located in Flower Mound on 21 acres of property. We have room to expand, room to do more, and room to reach more. God is still at work after all of these years. In fact, He has only just begun!

Physical Address

2501 Northshore BlvdFlower Mound, TX 75028

Office Hours

8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.Monday- Friday

Contact Info

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